fix(uploads): make the drift guards fail for the reasons they claim

Deep-review round 3, targeted at the surfaces round 2's fix commit changed.
Five of the eight findings are the same shape: the guards written to stop
half-done sweeps were themselves half-done.

test_upload.py's display-field guard walked only `ast.Assign`, so the one
writer with an unbounded REQUEST HEADER behind it — `spool_upload`'s
`display_name=display_text(...)` keyword — was invisible to the guard meant
to protect it. It also stopped at `app/routes/`, missing the four writers in
`downloads/` that actually construct the row, and asserted `not offenders`,
which enforces nothing once a refactor moves the writers out of its view.
It now walks assignments AND keywords across `app/`, and holds exact set
equality against a registry of all twelve write sites with each one's value.

test_body_limit.py's release guard used `any(... ast.walk(fn))`, which
accepts a `release_read_connection` that runs AFTER the await it exists to
precede — satisfying the letter of the rule while pinning a connection for
exactly the transfer it was supposed to free. Position is checked now, and a
late release is its own, louder failure. The registry keyed sites by file
basename while scanning recursively, and `admin.py`, `discover.py` and
`playlists.py` each exist both at the top level and under `plex/` — the same
entry-collapse the registry was widened to close. Keyed by relative path now.
And all three guards recognised a body read only by the `capped_` naming
convention, so a route spelling `await request.body()` inline declared no
ceiling, released no connection, and was invisible to every one of them.

`release_read_connection`'s precondition claimed the caller "must have
NOTHING PENDING, and that is checked rather than described" while checking
only UNFLUSHED ORM work. Measured: after `add`+`flush` all three collections
are empty and the rollback loses the row, and Core DML never enters them at
all — both of them this codebase's canonical write shapes. It now also asks
the transaction directly via `pg_current_xact_id_if_assigned()`.

`errors.tooLarge` was reworded to "try a smaller file", but that key answers
every route's body cap: the issue composer's over-size JSON draft got advice
about a file it does not have. Back to payload-neutral; the file-specific
sentence keeps its own key.

The upload dialog's new danger border outranked `dragOver`, so a user
replacing an over-cap file got no sign the drop zone was live — and with a
file picked the label shows its name rather than "drop it here", so the
border was the only feedback left.

Four further findings were refuted 3/3 and are not fixed: `aria-invalid` on
the drop zone (measured in Chromium — the AX node does carry it on a native
button), a bidi-override spoof through `display_text` (the served filename
already strips those categories, and the proposed filter would have broken
every ZWJ emoji), and `capped_body` not draining (the screenshot route's edge
ceiling equals its own cap, so that refusal is unreachable, and the log sink
is sent by beacon with nobody reading the answer).
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2026-09-23 01:20:22 +02:00
parent 7c0647f87a
commit 321776480e
8 changed files with 283 additions and 64 deletions
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
from collections.abc import Iterator
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
from sqlalchemy.orm import DeclarativeBase, Session, sessionmaker
from app.config import settings
@@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ def release_read_connection(db: Session) -> None:
shared with every dependency that ran before, so a rollback here would silently discard a write
one of them staged — `service.enqueue` already learned that lesson the expensive way and uses a
SAVEPOINT for it. CLAUDE.md: a rule stated in a comment must also be enforced in code.
TWO checks, because the obvious one is blind to the shapes this codebase actually writes in.
`db.new`/`deleted`/`dirty` hold only UNFLUSHED unit-of-work: the moment a helper calls
`db.flush()` — CLAUDE.md's canonical split is "the handler commits; helpers flush" — the object
is persistent with no unflushed history and all three sets are empty again, and Core DML
(`db.execute(update(...))`) never enters them at all. Measured: after `add`+`flush` the sets are
empty, the old check passed, and the rollback lost the row. So the transaction is asked
directly. Postgres assigns a transaction id on the first WRITE and never for a read, so
`pg_current_xact_id_if_assigned()` is NULL for exactly the state this function is safe in — and
it sees a raw `text("UPDATE …")` too, which no session-level bookkeeping would.
"""
if db.new or db.deleted or db.dirty:
raise RuntimeError(
@@ -61,4 +71,13 @@ def release_read_connection(db: Session) -> None:
"staged a write, which ending the transaction would discard. Commit it first, or do "
"it after the await."
)
if (
db.in_transaction()
and db.execute(text("SELECT pg_current_xact_id_if_assigned()")).scalar() is not None
):
raise RuntimeError(
"release_read_connection() on a transaction that has already WRITTEN: something ahead "
"of this dependency flushed a row or ran an UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE, which ending the "
"transaction would discard. Commit it first, or do it after the await."
)
db.rollback()
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@@ -212,7 +212,12 @@ def test_the_default_ceiling_clears_the_largest_body_a_default_route_takes():
# BOTH helpers, not just `capped_body`: P1 added `capped_stream_to` as its sibling and the registry
# did not follow, so the upload route — the one this whole invariant was written for — was the one
# site the drift guard could not see (deep-review round 1). The names come from `_common.py` itself
# below, so a THIRD sibling cannot be added without this list noticing either.
# below, so a THIRD sibling cannot be added without this list noticing either — and a route that
# skips the helpers altogether and awaits `request.body()` lands here as `<no ceiling declared>`
# rather than vanishing (round 3).
#
# The module is the path relative to `app/routes/`, so a site under `plex/` is spelled
# `plex/admin.py` and cannot collide with the top-level `admin.py`.
CAPPED_BODY_SITES = {
("diagnostics.py", "_parsed_events", "capped_body", "BODY_MAX_BYTES"),
("debug_sessions.py", "_image_body", "capped_body", "debugsession.SCREENSHOT_MAX_BYTES"),
@@ -242,6 +247,42 @@ def test_the_registry_covers_every_body_reading_helper():
)
# The ways a route can read its own body WITHOUT one of `_common.py`'s helpers. Every `Request`
# parameter under `app/routes/` is named `request`, so the base name is an exact filter and not a
# guess — the only other `.json()` in the package is `exc.json()` on a ValidationError.
#
# Without this set the three guards below know only the `capped_*` naming convention, which means
# they are blind to the shape `_common.py` itself is written in. A route spelling `await
# request.body()` inline declares no ceiling, hands no connection back, and would be invisible to
# all three — reading as "no new sites" rather than as a failure, which is the exact way a drift
# guard dies quietly (deep-review round 3).
RAW_BODY_READS = {"body", "stream", "form", "json"}
def _call_name(node: ast.Call) -> str | None:
if isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute):
return node.func.attr
return getattr(node.func, "id", None)
def _body_read_calls(fn: ast.AST, readers: set[str]) -> list[tuple[ast.Call, str]]:
"""Every call inside `fn` that reads the request body, as (node, name) in source order."""
out: list[tuple[ast.Call, str]] = []
for node in ast.walk(fn):
if not isinstance(node, ast.Call):
continue
if (
isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
and isinstance(node.func.value, ast.Name)
and node.func.value.id == "request"
and node.func.attr in RAW_BODY_READS
):
out.append((node, f"request.{node.func.attr}"))
elif _call_name(node) in readers:
out.append((node, _call_name(node) or ""))
return sorted(out, key=lambda pair: (pair[0].lineno, pair[0].col_offset))
def _body_reading_functions() -> dict[tuple[str, str], dict]:
"""Every function under `app/routes/` that reads a request body itself, keyed by
(module, function).
@@ -254,55 +295,57 @@ def _body_reading_functions() -> dict[tuple[str, str], dict]:
Keyed by the ENCLOSING FUNCTION, not just the module: a set keyed by module and limit
expression collapses two call sites that spell their limit the same way, which is exactly what
a second route copied from the first would do.
The module half of the key is the path RELATIVE to `app/routes/`, not the basename: the scan
recurses, and `admin.py`, `discover.py` and `playlists.py` each exist both at the top level and
under `plex/`. Keying by basename would let the second of a colliding pair overwrite the first
and take its `releases` flag out of the comparison with it — the same entry-collapse this
registry was widened to close.
`_common.py` is skipped: it is where the helpers live, so its own `request.stream()` loops are
the implementation of the rule rather than a violation of it.
"""
readers = _body_readers()
routes_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "app" / "routes"
found: dict[tuple[str, str], dict] = {}
for py in sorted(routes_dir.rglob("*.py")):
if py.name == "_common.py":
continue
module = py.relative_to(routes_dir).as_posix()
tree = ast.parse(py.read_text("utf-8"), filename=str(py))
for fn in ast.walk(tree):
if not isinstance(fn, (ast.AsyncFunctionDef, ast.FunctionDef)):
continue
calls = [
node
for node in ast.walk(fn)
if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
and (
node.func.attr
if isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
else getattr(node.func, "id", None)
)
in readers
]
calls = _body_read_calls(fn, readers)
if not calls:
continue
names = [
node.func.attr
if isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
else getattr(node.func, "id", None)
for node in calls
]
names = [name for _, name in calls]
limits = []
for node, name in zip(calls, names):
for node, name in zip([n for n, _ in calls], names):
if name.startswith("request."):
limits.append("<no ceiling declared>")
continue
limit = next((kw.value for kw in node.keywords if kw.arg == "limit"), None)
if limit is None:
pos = 2 if name == "capped_stream_to" else 1
limit = node.args[pos] if len(node.args) > pos else None
limits.append(ast.unparse(limit) if limit is not None else "<none>")
releases = any(
isinstance(node, ast.Call)
and (
node.func.attr
if isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
else getattr(node.func, "id", None)
)
== "release_read_connection"
# POSITION, not presence. `any(...)` over the function accepted a release that ran
# AFTER the await it exists to precede — the natural spelling for someone reading the
# name as "release it when you're done" — while pinning a connection for the whole
# transfer. The first body read is what the release has to beat.
releases = [
node
for node in ast.walk(fn)
)
found[(py.name, fn.name)] = {
if isinstance(node, ast.Call) and _call_name(node) == "release_read_connection"
]
first_read = calls[0][0].lineno
found[(module, fn.name)] = {
"helpers": names,
"limits": limits,
"releases": releases,
"releases": any(node.lineno < first_read for node in releases),
"releases_late": bool(releases)
and not any(node.lineno < first_read for node in releases),
}
return found
@@ -356,6 +399,43 @@ def test_release_read_connection_refuses_to_discard_pending_work(db):
db.rollback() # the staged row is this test's own
def test_release_read_connection_refuses_to_discard_a_FLUSHED_write(db):
"""The half the unit-of-work check cannot see.
`db.new`/`dirty`/`deleted` empty out the moment a helper flushes, and CLAUDE.md's canonical
split is "the handler commits; helpers flush" — so the single most likely future violator is
the one shape the obvious check is blind to. Measured before the fix: all three sets empty, the
guard silent, the row gone after the rollback.
"""
from app.db import release_read_connection
db.add(SystemConfig(key="probe_flushed_write", value="1"))
db.flush()
assert not (db.new or db.dirty or db.deleted), (
"the flush did not clear the unit-of-work, so this test would pass for the wrong reason"
)
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="already WRITTEN"):
release_read_connection(db)
db.rollback()
def test_release_read_connection_refuses_to_discard_a_core_dml_write(db):
"""The other half: `db.execute(update(...))` never enters the unit-of-work at all, and
`downloads/service.py` writes that way on purpose (a conditional `UPDATE … WHERE status=…` is
the honest-states pattern)."""
from sqlalchemy import insert
from app.db import release_read_connection
db.execute(insert(SystemConfig).values(key="probe_core_dml", value="1"))
assert not (db.new or db.dirty or db.deleted), (
"Core DML entered the unit-of-work, so this test would pass for the wrong reason"
)
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="already WRITTEN"):
release_read_connection(db)
db.rollback()
def test_every_body_reading_site_hands_its_pooled_connection_back_first():
"""Reading the body yourself is what makes a request SLOW inside its own database session.
@@ -367,15 +447,26 @@ def test_every_body_reading_site_hands_its_pooled_connection_back_first():
Held generically because the three sites arrived one at a time and only the newest was fixed:
a fourth body-reading route gets the same requirement automatically.
BEFORE the read, not merely somewhere in the function. A release that runs after the await
satisfies the letter of the rule and none of its purpose — the connection was held for exactly
the span the rule exists to protect — so `releases_late` is reported as its own, louder case.
"""
offenders = [
sites = _body_reading_functions()
late = [f"{module}:{fn}" for (module, fn), site in sites.items() if site["releases_late"]]
missing = [
f"{module}:{fn}"
for (module, fn), site in _body_reading_functions().items()
if not site["releases"]
for (module, fn), site in sites.items()
if not site["releases"] and not site["releases_late"]
]
assert not offenders, (
assert not late, (
"a route calls db.release_read_connection AFTER it reads the body, which holds the pooled "
f"connection for exactly the transfer it was supposed to free: {late}. Move the call above "
"the await."
)
assert not missing, (
"a route reads its own request body while still inside its read transaction, pinning a "
f"pooled connection for the whole transfer: {offenders}. Call "
f"pooled connection for the whole transfer: {missing}. Call "
"db.release_read_connection(db) before the await — see routes/downloads.py:spool_upload."
)
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@@ -480,34 +480,112 @@ def test_a_long_display_name_is_truncated_on_EVERY_route_that_takes_one(
assert patched.json()["display_uploader"] == bound
def test_no_route_assigns_a_display_field_without_the_shared_helper():
"""The drift guard for the test above: it holds five routes, this holds the rule.
def _display_write_sites() -> dict[tuple[str, str], set[str]]:
"""Every place under `backend/app/` that puts a value into a display field, as
(module relative to `app/`, enclosing function) -> the set of value expressions written there.
Parsed, not grepped. Every `display_name = ...` / `display_uploader = ...` assignment under
`app/routes/` takes a string a user typed and puts it on its way to a varchar(255) column, so
every one of them must go through `display_text`. A sixth route added tomorrow fails here
instead of 500ing in production.
TWO SHAPES, because the first version of this guard walked only `ast.Assign` and was therefore
blind to the shape the upload route itself uses — `SpooledUpload(..., display_name=...)` is an
`ast.keyword`, not an assignment, so the one site with an unbounded REQUEST HEADER behind it was
the site the guard could not see (deep-review round 3).
ANNOTATED assignments are excluded on purpose: `display_name: Mapped[str | None] =
mapped_column(...)` in `models.py` and `display_name: str | None = None` in a Pydantic model are
declarations of the field, not writes into it.
The whole of `app/`, not just `app/routes/`: a job row is constructed in `downloads/service.py`
and `downloads/upload.py`, so a walk stopping at the HTTP boundary misses the writers that
actually reach the column.
"""
routes_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "app" / "routes"
offenders: list[str] = []
for py in sorted(routes_dir.rglob("*.py")):
app_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "app"
found: dict[tuple[str, str], set[str]] = {}
for py in sorted(app_dir.rglob("*.py")):
module = py.relative_to(app_dir).as_posix()
tree = ast.parse(py.read_text("utf-8"), filename=str(py))
enclosing: dict[int, str] = {}
for fn in ast.walk(tree):
if isinstance(fn, (ast.AsyncFunctionDef, ast.FunctionDef)):
for node in ast.walk(fn):
enclosing.setdefault(id(node), fn.name)
for node in ast.walk(tree):
if not isinstance(node, ast.Assign):
if isinstance(node, ast.Assign):
names = {
t.id if isinstance(t, ast.Name) else t.attr
for t in node.targets
if isinstance(t, (ast.Name, ast.Attribute))
}
value = node.value
elif isinstance(node, ast.keyword):
names = {node.arg} if node.arg else set()
value = node.value
else:
continue
names = {
t.id if isinstance(t, ast.Name) else t.attr
for t in node.targets
if isinstance(t, (ast.Name, ast.Attribute))
}
if not names & {"display_name", "display_uploader"}:
continue
value = ast.unparse(node.value)
if "display_text" not in value:
offenders.append(f"{py.name}:{node.lineno}: {value}")
assert not offenders, (
"a display field is assigned without models.display_text, so a name longer "
f"than the column is a 500 rather than a truncation: {offenders}"
key = (module, enclosing.get(id(node), "<module>"))
found.setdefault(key, set()).add(ast.unparse(value))
return found
# Every write into a display field, with the expression each one writes. A varchar(255) column with
# a request header behind it turns a too-long name into a psycopg DataError — a 500 AFTER the whole
# file has transferred — so each of these has to be bounded, and each one here has been read.
#
# Bounded by `display_text` unless noted:
# auth.get_or_create_demo_user a literal.
# service.redownload CLEARS the field so the fresh metadata wins — `None` is the
# one value that needs no bound, and a clear is still a write.
# service.enqueue / enqueue_edit `display_name` is already bounded by its caller; the fallback
# slices the YouTube title to the same width.
# downloads.upload_download passes through `spool_upload`'s value, bounded there.
#
# Held as EXACT EQUALITY rather than as a list of offenders. The offender form could only fail
# upward: refactoring the writers into a shape the walker did not recognise left it asserting
# `not []` and enforcing nothing, which is how a drift guard dies quietly (round 3). This one fails
# when a site appears, when one disappears, and when one changes what it writes.
DISPLAY_WRITE_SITES = {
("auth.py", "get_or_create_demo_user"): {"'Demo'"},
("downloads/service.py", "redownload"): {"None"},
("downloads/service.py", "enqueue"): {
"display_name or (asset.title[:DISPLAY_TEXT_MAX] "
"if asset.status == 'ready' and asset.title else None)"
},
("downloads/service.py", "enqueue_edit"): {"display_name or asset.title[:DISPLAY_TEXT_MAX]"},
("downloads/upload.py", "ingest_upload"): {"display_text(display_name)"},
("routes/auth.py", "callback"): {"display_text(userinfo.get('name'))"},
("routes/auth.py", "_complete_link"): {"display_text(userinfo.get('name'))"},
("routes/downloads.py", "enqueue_download"): {"display_text(body.display_name)"},
("routes/downloads.py", "enqueue_edit"): {"display_text(body.display_name)"},
("routes/downloads.py", "update_download_meta"): {
"display_text(body.display_name)",
"display_text(body.display_uploader)",
},
("routes/downloads.py", "upload_download"): {"upload.display_name"},
("routes/downloads.py", "spool_upload"): {
"display_text(_header_text(request, UPLOAD_DISPLAY_NAME_HEADER))"
},
}
def test_no_code_path_assigns_a_display_field_without_the_shared_helper():
"""The drift guard for the test above: it holds five routes, this holds the rule.
Parsed, not grepped. Every value that reaches a display field takes a string a user typed (or
YouTube supplied) and puts it on its way to a varchar(255) column, so every one of them must be
bounded. A writer added tomorrow fails here instead of 500ing in production.
"""
found = _display_write_sites()
moved = set(found) ^ set(DISPLAY_WRITE_SITES)
changed = {
key: (found[key], DISPLAY_WRITE_SITES[key])
for key in set(found) & set(DISPLAY_WRITE_SITES)
if found[key] != DISPLAY_WRITE_SITES[key]
}
assert found == DISPLAY_WRITE_SITES, (
"a display-field write appeared, moved or changed shape. Every value reaching "
"display_name/display_uploader must be bounded to models.DISPLAY_TEXT_MAX — normally by "
"models.display_text — or a name longer than the column is a 500 rather than a truncation. "
f"Sites that appeared or vanished: {moved}. Sites that changed: {changed}."
)